Pages

Pages

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Ready to have a wild time as you race to find the matches? Wild Animal Shout Out is great for preschool and kindergarten kids learning their animals and animal sounds. Or play with older children and teens to teach animal vocabulary in a second language.

This is my first venture away from clipart and into real photos. I noticed with clipart, often my kids wouldn't recognize animals they weren't familiar with in nature. But, now, my kids are excited when we go to the zoo and they see the animals.

For a funny, alternative way to play, instead of naming the animals, make their sounds instead. Don't know what sound a giraffe or butterfly make? Make up your own sounds or words that target sounds or ideas you're emphasizing. Or make it crazy, like doing raspberries or clicking noises with your mouth. Soon you'll be rolling with laughter.

Don't forget the Shout Out is an ideal travel game. Get off the screens at restaurants, practices and other places your waiting around.

Be one of the first 10 people to pin on Pinterest during the first 24 hours and I'll send you a Wild Zoo Animals digital game. Email me or contact me on social media to tell me what board you pinned to and what email address I should send the game to. Here's the pin

Sunday, April 2, 2017

Wasn't Conference wonderful? I have tons of things I want to focus on during the upcoming months. I've prepared a few things to help my family and maybe they'll help yours too.

After Elder Nelson's talk, I was anxious to begin studying all the scriptures about Christ from the Topical Guide -- all 57 topics. That seemed a bit intimidating to my kids, so I'm encouraging my kids who are 8+ to do the first section summary. Here is a google document with all of the references (and their links, if you keep it on the screen and not printed): Jesus Christ Summary from Topical Guide I am encouraging them to write simple notes next to the references on what they learn. My 10 year old also wants to add notes in the margins of his scriptures.

After the many references to and quotes from the Living Christ, I want to make study of it a prominent part of my family's gospel study. Each day we already have a morning devotional. We usually sing a song, memorize the primary scripture of the month, recite an Article of Faith and read a few verses from the Book of Mormon. I'd like to add focusing on one sentence of the Living Christ each week. So, I placed one sentence on each page so I can rotate them through a frame and keep it posted throughout the week. I'm going to use the colorful page for my family. The colors rotate in the order of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), so if you are trying to memorize the whole thing, the colors can give visual reminders.
To download: Jesus the Christ by sentence colorJesus the Christ by black and white

About Me

As a mother of 5 kids at home, ranging from 2 years old to teen, I keep hopping as a taxi driver, teacher, consultant, personal trainer, planner, nurse and entertainer. I love being with my family, having family dinners and those choice moments and activities that bring us all together.
I created Shout Out games as similar style games were one of the few games that our whole family could play together. It truly spans the ages. I also saw so much potential in using games to learn-as-you-play. (Let's face it, I don't want to do sight words flash cards again with my two youngest. There's got to be a better way, and now there is!)
I love languages and I've studied Spanish, Russian and Korean. I am an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I love trying to make holidays special (love last minute instant printables). My kids have all needed some speech therapy. As you can tell, most of my games and inspiration come from my interactions with my family. One moment it may be preschool, the next an upcoming holiday, or some days its working on speech therapy homework. Please let me know what games you would use in your home, family, class or life.